Lumion Vr Support

[Alysa Guillama]

jrohrer A big difference between Enscape vs. Lumion you will find, if you look, which kind of reflection are available. Lumion supports three kind of reflections. If I understand right, Enscape supports something like the speedray reflections of Lumion only. It' good to know that this is a hard limit without workaround per planar/cube reflections. Also, not all objects of a scene are shown at the reflections. Doe's Lumion reduce the objects at reflections too?

The reflection difference is more a question of usability philosophy: We do not want to bother users with the choice of which reflection algorithm to choose per surface. It is "everything should look as good a possible by default" vs "By default, it looks like a cartoon but you can tune it with a bunch of options".

Intefgrated with SKP, faster to render your scene. Easy material editor. Lumion has the animated objects that are easy to place. Render times are high once you start to add all the effects needed to make it look good. For my money, I would use Enscape over Lumion. I hate having to go into a seperate app to do something and have to deal with import export issues. That's why my main tools are 3ds MAX and vray. When I need to generate quick animations I use Enscape.

As long as the final client don't ask why something looks totally wrong it can be a question of philosophy. At the moment we have the "looks like cartoon" effect for reflections in some situations without a workaround. In this situation the advanced user should be able dive in advanced options and enable special reflection mapping types. So, the result could be nearly perfect looking without to bother the not advanced user. My hope is, if the needed quality can't be reached by additional reflection types, that the mysterious RTX will help in the future.

I never used Lumion in school as I wasn't a fan of the overall output aesthetic. I had the VRay plug in which was fine then, and is what I use now, but I don't like the time I spend in post-render photoshopping the image.

I worked in Lumion some at an office where I interned and while I appreciate that the placement of entourage and control of environment was user friendly and kept our Revit Models less cluttered with those features, it was aggravating to have to update the Revit model, save, re-link, etc. I also found the multiple reflection options to be unnecessary and agree with the "everything should look as good as possible by default", as I am now a sole practitioner and do not really have time to fiddle with settings that do not yield outcomes worth the time it takes to achieve them.

A former colleague who spent many hours working in Lumion put me onto Enscape. I'm really enjoying it and looking forward to the expanded asset library. It is also far more affordable than Lumion, and the real-time updating in the model reflected in the Enscape window are invaluable to making minor changes prior to spending the time to output an image.

My favorite feature of Enscape is the ability to quickly change the time of day in the Viewer and how well Enscape engages artificial lighting in the model. This is something that frustrated me endlessly with the native Revit rendering engines, VRay, etc. as lighting fixtures seemed to have too much you had to do to get the desired effect.

My only gripe with Enscape (and this may be because I haven't used it enough to know) is that when I set a view in Revit, it is very exact in its size and scope of the view, and I wish Enscape would automatically detect the pixel width and height of the image rather than trying to assign a ratio in the Enscape Settings.

If time is of little concern to you, you might find expanded settings in Lumion or other rendering engines helpful, but time is a serious factor for me and I either don't care for or cannot afford 3rd party visualization services as of now. I'm pleased with the program and glad I did not go with Lumion.

I got my lumion license a couple weeks ago. ( ialso use Vray/corona with max) Enscape is realtime and Lumion use GPU to render....It could take from few seconds to few minutes to render one image... The asset library is over 5000 objects but to me the only ones with decent quality are vegetation/people/animals....Furniture are not very good...Lumion is expensive but I still like it.

To me the value of Enscape is during schematic design/design development to visualize my design in realtime and see it thru those vr-Glasses .....good tool to sell your project and chat with clients in front of the computer.

In terms of the nature of the rendering engine LUMION is baking rendering, ENSCAPE real-time ray tracing is rendering, look at the rendering quality is better than LUMION ENSCAPE, particularly in the close shot of industrial products, indoor and outdoor building small scene on the expression of more real, and the advantage of LUMION first is his contains a large number of after finishing effect good plant material, such as the big rich can quickly outdoor scene. Simply put, the farther away LUMION is, the better, and the closer ENSCAPE is

As an old, experienced architecture modeller, designer and renderer - I believe that description "semi-automatic" for ENSCAPE 3D stands completely! and you render in your native "weapon"/program, as a plugin contribution... Using 10+ different renderers in the past - I found that certain simplification of Enscape Team is very fast and smooth, without quality compensation. it makes production of "final rendering" time FEW TIMES faster than other tools, enabling you to fill the model/scene with additional assets/detail as a contribution to "immediate viewer impression task"...
My vote(s) go for Enscape rather than Lumion!!!

I don't know if this will work or not, but if everyone on Softplan and any where else in the world would ask the Lumion Development Team for a live sync, just maybe they would do it...... Here is the link to get this going: Send feedback and ideas to the Lumion team I know most folks don't use a separate rendering program, but if you ever do ..........And from Alice's Restaurant: " if just three people, just three people do it, it becomes a movement." THANKS!!!!

I am highly interested in using Lumion for rendering SoftPlan models, but it would be a treat to see Lumion support LiveSync. I have submitted a suggestion about a month ago to both Lumion and SoftPlan. I do agree that if there are enough users notifying Lumion to support LiveSync for SoftPlan, it would be noticeable by the Lumion Team. This would be a great feature to utilize Building Options but also for the ease of convenience since both programs are powerful tools and to put them together in sync is a game changer.

I as well would love to see Lumion Sync with my SoftPlan. And i will also send a request to Lumion for this feature. I hope it goes better than my correspondence With Lumion and 3D Connexion. I feel there is a deep resentment between these companies that will never be resolved. Pride can be such a destructive force. I actually had a Lumion rep question my need for the 3D mouse. He basically told me that navigating with the keyboard was just as good as a mouse. We agreed to disagree.

There are also a lot of other niche and competitors to Lumion such as Twinmotion and D5 Render that I am noticing but another render engine would probably take away too much time from the SoftPlan developers to create and maybe that time could be used to improve SoftPlan in-house render engine instead.

Overall, I don't think it's a long shot for Lumion to add SoftPlan to LiveSync but I do agree that Autodesk would be more concerned about competition if SoftPlan had LiveSync support. It is only a matter of time...*fingers crossed*.

You may perhaps see some placeholder models but at least our Enscape Assets should not be properly supported or displayed in Lumion itself - I'm not sure about SketchUp warehouse assets, in that regard you may want to just give it a try or refer to Lumion themselves if you experience any issues importing said warehouse models.

Hi. I am working in a big model using Rhino 6 and cant export into any format except the rhino files.
The file is a big masterplan but I have tryed to clean the model and just have a small portion of the model for the lumion schenes but the problems remains. I have also tried to use livesync, as this is the only way that I can open the rhino into lumion but have problems with the rendered surfaces. The model is clean, whithout overlaying meshes and with the right materails. Any ideas ??

I can export into collada but when imported into lumion there is nothing in the model, Alos can export into SketchUp and the same happens. if I try to.open with SketchUp, the program crashes. the model is close to the origin.

I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to express my disappointment and seek assistance regarding the ARC 750 graphics card I recently purchased. I was excited about the potential of this product, particularly its compatibility with software such as Lumion, Enscape, Vray, and others. However, I have encountered several issues that have severely hindered its performance and functionality.

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